EDMUNDS'S GAG IS READY; IN "ONE OF HIS MOMENTS" HE SHOWS IS TO THE DEMOCRATS. A NEW ADAPTATION OF GAG WHICH WILL ONLY SERVE TO LENGTHEN DISCUSSION -- THE TALK YESTERDAY.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. -- NO one who has paid any attention to the tariff debate in the Senate, and who has noticed how much more searchingly the items of the bill have been discussed in that that branch of the Congress than they were in the House, can have formed any other opinion than that the discussion is a good one and that it is worth all the time that has been given to it.

August 12, 1890

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